There was once a time when if you wanted to view or "rent" your media such as popular films, music, or games, you would either have to pay to see it in a theater, buy it once it hit retail for full price, or rent it from your local BlockBuster Video. With the arrival of new and creative ideas such as NetFlix there became a new source of securing the world's media in advance directly delivered to your door, without you ever having to leave home. Then as we evolved beyond the grasp of the formerly new idea, people demanded a faster way to view what they want to see, without leaving home, at an affordable price. Fast forward to 2010, and we have a luxurious new industrial complex built entirely around online media purchases, rentals, and downloads.

One of the largest stories regarding file sharing and copyright enactments of the year, has been the "three strikes" proposals across the globe, most famously, that of the United Kingdom. A joint ISP report today outlined the costs and requirements for any such bill to be enacted in the United Kingdom, and as if the story weren't already enough to make your blood boil, once you hear the price tag you're sure to become aggravated.

Corporate mergers typically bring with them the pounding drums of success stories and promises to reach new heights. What bells and whistles usually do not sound (at least publicly), are the ones toting the tune of future price gouging and monopolization. Recently, the United States Pirate Party, have sounded off in an attempt to block the merger of two corporate media giants, NBC and Comcast.

It's no secret that one of the largest internet service provider's in the United States, Comcast, has been throttling BitTorrent traffic. For several years they have openly stated that they've been throttling those using the BitTorrent protocol, and that it was essential to supply their customers with maximum allotted bandwidth. Now, after a tough class-action lawsuit against them for doing exactly what they admitted, they've decided to settle out of court.

Seattle: A federal appeals courts ordered Microsoft to stop selling its Word programme in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.

I think you are all familiar with the video that has been on the internet swirling around for a while. Spotlight is now on Mr Federico Alvarez who made a movie flick that was made almost from thin air in comparison to Hollywood budgets for movies that are really over the top with stupidity and movie effects alike.

Internet search giant Google has not paid any tax on it's £1.6 billion advertising revenues in Britain last year, a media reporter says. “Google, the Internet giant whose informal corporate motto is ‘don’t be evil’, did not pay any tax on its £1.6 billion advertising revenues in Britain last year,” the Sunday Times Reported.

The ACTA, or Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, have been more than just making headlines as the world's newest force behind Anti-Piracy. They've already went through six rounds of international discussions, and have a firm grip on the world's political process and legislation.

Earlier this year I've reported to you about the political party in France, which also represents French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and how they committed copyright infringement by allowing a musical score to be played on their campaign advertisements without permission from the copyright holders. Then later this past fall, they did it again, in a last ditch effort to provide their guests with a documentary, which they only had ordered 50 copies of, they made over 400 illegal backup copies, in order to meet the demands. Now, for a third time, they've been accused of yet again committing copyright infringement.

European law offices will find themselves on the other side of the questioning alongside with some anti-piracy companies because of the pre-settlement notices they forced on tens of thousands of P2P users. The agreements they achieved in those settlements even cost more than the actual bill that should be payed for the illegitimate sharing of copyrighted materials.